YCR member Aidan with Daniel Wood from the Houses of Parliament Outreach Service and Ed Poulter from Involve Yorkshire & Humber.
The session was really useful and showed us how we can have an influence on issues by engaging with MPs, Lords and Select Committees at Parliament. Aidan said about the event “Inside Parliament explained the many ways in which small groups can really get their foot in the door with the help of MPs, a really informative day!”.
YCR hits the headlines in the local press once more following their presentation at the launch of the Young Carers Card. Well done to the presentation team you did YCR proud!
Picture courtesy of the York & District Advertiser, you can see the full article here:
Aidan, Imogen and Emma receive applause from an audience of Headteachers after their informative and challenging presentation! Watch this space for the feedback.
Conservative MP Julian Sturdy follows up his debate on Young Carers issues with a day shadowing Carers Centre staff. He even dropped in to meet YCR founder member Sophee at her home.
You can see Julian Sturdy’s comments here : Julian Sturdy BLOG
Well done Sami for representing YCR at a reception with the Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street! Click the logo to see the fantastic story in the press!
Young Carers Revolution began the next stages of their plan for world domination; by inviting new young carers to join the campaign. The crew planned a media training day to help inform the new members of how to deal with media attention. The Aims of the day were as follows:
- Welcoming New Members and establishing the Contract of Respect 2011
- Review YCR media campaign and key messages
- Take part in media training
- Begin two new projects
The day was hosted by CJ and Sami, who helped to organise activities to warm up the group, one of the activities was to draw the person opposite you without taking your eyes off their face… the results are below! The media training was provided with the help of a special guest in the form of Claire Morrow – Former Controller of Programming for ITV Yorkshire!
And of course in typical YCR fashion plenty of fun and laughter was had during the way.
Thank you to all that came, Hope to see you next time. Sami
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YCR Members Ash, Seb, Amie, Sami, Natatsha and Aidan outside the O2 Arena where they were invited along with many other inspirational young people to represent as Regional V-Award Winners!
We’ve had a great comment from the Author of Caitlin’s Wish! Check it out here along with a petition asking for schools to support young carers further.
Thanks to Julian Sturdy MP, the YCR message was loud and clear in Parliament yesterday.
See his full speech here : Julian Sturdy YCR Parliamentary Debate
This BLOG is now the new home of the Young Carers Revolution Campaign! Here we will keep you up to date with all of our latest news and projects!
Thankyou for following us so far, you can still go back and look through the YCR Story and see how we got to where we are today. We think this new BLOG is a better way of directing people easily to the campaign materials without having to scroll through masses of posts. We look forward to your comments and feedback!
Peace
CJ :: Inspired Youth
